Microsoft vs Veeva Systems

Microsoft — Application · Public · $3.7T mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Veeva Systems — Application · Public · $45.5B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced

Relationship

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

Aligned comparison

FieldMicrosoftVeeva Systems
Market cap$3.7T$45.5B Veeva Systems has 81× smaller
Employees223,0007,928 Veeva Systems has 28× fewer
Founded19752007 32 yrs later
StatusPublicPublic match
CategoryApplicationApplication match
Stack layerAI agent, API service, Agent platform, Application, Data service, Developer tool, PlatformAI agent, Agent platform, Application
HeadquartersRedmond, USAPleasanton, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 8

Agent orchestrationClinical documentationCustomer supportDocument extractionEmail assistanceKnowledge retrievalSummarizationWorkflow automation

Not verified for Veeva Systems · 20

Agentic codingCode generationCode reviewData analysisData securityEvaluation and observabilityGuardrails and safetyMeeting notesModel hostingModel inferenceModel trainingPresentation generationSpeech to textText generationText to speechThreat detection and responseTranslationVector searchVideo analyticsSearch answers

Recorded for Microsoft. Veeva Systems’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Microsoft · 2

Legal drafting and reviewMarketing content

Recorded for Veeva Systems. Microsoft’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Microsoft

Application

Azure AI Bot ServiceApplication

Integrated development environment for building conversational bots, integrating with Microsoft Copilot Studio for low-code bot building.

Microsoft 365 CopilotApplication

AI assistant embedded in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams that grounds its answers in a customer's own business data and ships with pre-built agents.

Microsoft CopilotApplication

Microsoft's assistant for chat, search and work inside Windows and the Microsoft 365 apps.

Microsoft Security CopilotApplication

Security-operations assistant that summarises threat signals and helps analysts detect, investigate and respond to incidents in natural language.

AI agent

Copilot CoworkAI agent

Agentic feature of Microsoft 365 Copilot that plans and executes multi-step, multi-app tasks end-to-end and returns a finished deliverable rather than a draft.

Agent platform

Microsoft Copilot StudioAgent platform

Low-code platform for building, connecting and publishing custom conversational and autonomous AI agents across Microsoft 365, the web and business channels.

Veeva Systems

Application

Vault AI in PromoMatsApplication

An embedded suite of AI agents for Veeva Vault PromoMats, including a Quick Check Agent for automated document quality checks and a conversational Content Agent that guides reviewers, plus configurable custom agents.

Veeva OstroApplication

Conversational AI brand engagement platform for life sciences that answers patient and HCP questions on brand sites and over email using MLR-approved content, and captures the resulting engagement as commercial evidence.

AI agent

Veeva FalconAI agent

Agentic labor platform providing standard biopharma AI agents that execute end-to-end clinical, regulatory and safety processes such as TMF intake and QC, health authority correspondence, and safety case triage.

Veeva Falcon MLRAI agent

Agentic medical, legal and regulatory review product that automatically checks promotional content for compliance across markets, anchors claims to references, and connects into the Veeva PromoMats review workflow.

Agent platform

Veeva AIAgent platform

Agentic layer across Veeva's Vault platform, with industry-specific agents that reach a life-sciences customer's regulated documents, CRM records and workflows directly rather than through an export.

No counterpart

Microsoft sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Veeva Systems yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

API service

Azure AI Custom VisionAPI service

Image-recognition service for building custom image classification and object-detection models; distinct from the general-purpose Azure AI Vision service.

Azure AI Immersive ReaderAPI service

Embeddable reading-comprehension tool that improves text readability for users of all ages and abilities.

Azure AI Video IndexerAPI service

Extracts insights from video and audio — transcription, face/object detection, sentiment, topics — via API.

Azure Content UnderstandingAPI service

Multimodal Azure AI service that extracts structured insights from unstructured content (documents, images, audio, video) into custom-defined schemas.

Azure Document IntelligenceAPI service

Extracts text, structure and key-value pairs from documents (invoices, receipts, forms, ID cards) via prebuilt and custom models.

Azure Language in Foundry ToolsAPI service

NLP service for sentiment analysis, key phrase extraction, entity recognition, summarization, question answering and conversational language understanding.

Azure Machine LearningAPI service

End-to-end platform for building, training, deploying and managing machine-learning models at enterprise scale.

Azure OpenAI in Foundry ModelsAPI service

Hosted access to OpenAI's GPT, embedding and image models with Azure enterprise security, networking and compliance, under Microsoft Foundry's current branding.

Azure Speech in Foundry ToolsAPI service

Speech-to-text, text-to-speech, speech translation and speaker recognition as an Azure API service.

Azure Translator in Foundry ToolsAPI service

Real-time and batch text translation API supporting 100+ languages.

Azure Vision in Foundry ToolsAPI service

Image analysis, OCR, spatial analysis and face detection as an Azure API service.

Content Safety in Foundry Control PlaneAPI service

Detects harmful text/image content (hate, violence, sexual, self-harm) for generative-AI applications, billed per text/image record analyzed.

Foundry Agent ServiceAPI service

Managed service for building, deploying and orchestrating enterprise AI agents with tool calling, state management and multi-turn conversations.

Foundry IQAPI service

Context-engineering platform giving AI agents agentic retrieval across enterprise data sources (SharePoint, Blob Storage, the web) with permission-aware security.

Foundry ModelsAPI service

Model catalog (11,000+ models from Azure, Anthropic, Meta, Mistral, Hugging Face and others) with managed-compute and serverless per-token deployment.

Microsoft Dragon CopilotAPI service

AI assistant for clinicians that combines ambient conversation capture, clinical documentation and voice-driven EHR/order workflows into one product.

Observability in Foundry Control PlaneAPI service

Evaluation, production monitoring and distributed tracing for generative-AI applications, billed by consumption per the Foundry observability pricing page.

Developer tool

GitHub CopilotDeveloper tool

Coding assistant and agent inside the editor, the CLI and GitHub itself.

Platform

Microsoft FoundryPlatform

Azure's platform for building, evaluating and deploying model-based applications and agents.

Data service

Azure AI SearchData service

Enterprise retrieval service providing hybrid keyword and vector search plus RAG grounding over an organisation's own data, also surfaced inside Microsoft Foundry as Foundry IQ.